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Welcome to our blog, The Source.
I know that business compliance can sometimes be overwhelming and I want to help you find your way to being and staying complaint.
THS SOURCE is a place for you to access and find out about the latest topics and insights that could impact your compliance for GDPR, ISO, Cyber Security and PCI DSS.
Howard Freeman
What is a data protection officer?
Find out what the data protection officer role involves and who or what you need to hire. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is something you've heard a lot about, whether you collect, store and use customer data, or you don't. It's the biggest...
British Airways data-breach compensation claim settled
British Airways has settled a legal claim by some of the 420,000 people affected by a major 2018 data breach. The breach affected both customers and BA staff. The data lost included names, addresses, and payment-card details. The Information Commissioner's Office...
The Data Protection Act 2018
On 25th May 2018 when the GDPR came into force, the European regulation attracted all the headlines. However, another price of regulation also came into law which acted differed from the EU GDPR. The Data Protection Act of 2018 is strewn with references to the GDPR...
Cyber Essentials Certification: keep your business data safe
With data breaches in the UK increasing by 46% year on year and over 80% of UK businesses falling victim to a successful attack this costs the UK economy £3.1bn between April ’21 and April ’22. This also resulted in ICO fines of £44m being collected against...
Alarm over low spend on cyber security as MPs review new Bill
At lunchtime today (Monday 5 September), the UK’s next prime minister will be revealed despite delays to voting by Conservative Party members following a GCHQ alert over cyber hackers On the same day the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill comes up for its...
GDPR Adoption…the reality
It is almost four and a half years since the GDPR became enforced in May of 2018. Since that date, when the world went mad over consent, subscriptions and other connection requests that most of the requestors ignored, we have had Harry and Megan, Brexit, Covid-19 and...